Group theory and general relativity. Representations of the Lorentz group and their applications to the gravitational field (Q2706809)

The two parts of this book are not very much related: The group theory part starting with the rotation group and concentrating on the Lorentz group and its representations on the one hand, and a standard course on general relativity on the other. The link between both themes is via the spinor representation of the general relativistic field equations and via the isometry group of exact solutions of the Einstein field equation. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThis book was essentially written in the sixties, completed in 1975, and first published in 1977 by McGraw Hill Inc. (see Zbl 0393.22014). Now, in 2000, Imperial College Press reprinted that book including a large number of misprints. No editor of this reprint is mentioned, and it was obviously not edited at all. The more than 1000 items of the reference list represent a good overview to what was up-to-date at that time.